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Joseph Sargent<\/strong>, known to Trek fans for directing an early Star Trek<\/em> episode, has passed away at the age of 89.<\/p>\n The cause of death was from COPD.<\/p>\n Born in 1925 as Guiseppe Danielle Sorgente<\/strong>, Sargent began his career as a Broadway chorus performer and actor.<\/p>\n Sargent directed episodes of many classic television shows of the 1960s, before moving on to directing television movies. Some of the series included Lassie, Bonanza, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Daniel Boone, The Fugitive, It Takes a Thief,<\/em> and Star Trek<\/em>.<\/p>\n The Star Trek<\/em> episode directed by Sargent was The Corbomite Maneuver<\/em>.<\/p>\n Sargent worked until he was eighty-four, over the years receiving four Emmys for his work (Kojak, Love is Never Silent, Caroline?, and Miss Rose White<\/em>). He also received four Directors Guild of America<\/em> Awards<\/em>.<\/p>\n “With eight DGA Awards<\/em> nominations in movies for television, more than any other director in this category, Joe embodied directorial excellence on the small screen,\u201d said DGA<\/em> president Paris Barclay<\/strong>. “He was unafraid of taking risks, believing in his heart that television audiences demanded the highest quality stories \u2014 whether chronicling uncomfortable historic events like the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study in Miss Evers’ Boys<\/em> or compelling personal stories about inspiring individuals like heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock <\/strong>and Vivien Thomas<\/strong> in Something the Lord Made<\/em>.”<\/p>\n Sargent is survived by his wife, Caroline, daughters Lia and Athena, and two nieces.<\/p>\n Thanks to Kenneth C<\/strong> for the tip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joseph Sargent, known to Trek fans for directing an early Star Trek episode, has passed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[3399],"class_list":["post-38552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-sargent"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast & Crew","comment_count":"6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38558,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38552\/revisions\/38558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}